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Back to the Cyberlibrarian's Rest Stop More about What's New ... Keeping Current with Web-Based Resources Web Searching, Sleuthing and Sifting Lesson Six: Using Meta-Search Engines What is a Meta-Search engine? A meta-search, multi-threaded or multi-search engine searches other search engines' databases in parallel (at the same time) and collates the results (which usually consist of a predetermined maximum "number" such as 10, 20 or 30). The search engine does not maintain its own database. Major differences in the meta-search engines include: Selection of databases searches Submission of queries to the search engines Manipulation and presentation of results Response time Selection of Databases Searched Most meta-search engines will search several of the "major" search engines at once, usually: Altavista, Excite, Lycos, Webcrawler, Yahoo and Hotbot. Sometimes because of an agreement with one search engine, the meta-search service will not search another, specified, search engine. A number of directories such as Looksmart, Galaxy, and/or smaller search engines and specialized databases such as Deja News (newsgroups), stock quotes, or news wires may also be included. Sometimes this is wonderful but at other times a lot false hits from irrelevant sources can create a bad search set. This is why the ability to customize is so important being able to choose which search engines your query is sent to.

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MetaCrawler, HuskySearch, and Grouper Note: MetaCrawler, HuskySearch, and Grouper were WWW search services operated by the University of Washington. MetaCrawler operated at the UW from 1995 - 1997; HuskySearch and Grouper operated at the UW from 1997 - 2000. MetaCrawler was licensed to Go2Net, now InfoSpace, in 1997. HuskySearch and Grouper were retired from service in 2000. MetaCrawler: 1995 - 1997 MetaCrawler provideded a single, central interface for World Wide Web document searching. Upon receiving a query, MetaCrawler posted the query to multiple search engines in parallel, and performed sophisticated pruning on the responses returned. Experiments indicated that MetaCrawler was able to Prune as much as 75% of the returned responses as irrelevant, outdated, or unavailable. MetaCrawler received upwards of 60,000 queries daily, making it one of the most popular meta-searching services in the world while operated by the University of Washington. recommended MetaCrawler as the search service of choice!

4. Using Meta-Search Engines - A Tutorial Because search engines vary in ability to interpret complex searches, metasearch engines work best Dogpile supports full Boolean logic and phrase searching. http://www.learnwebskills.com/search/parallel.html

M ETA- S EARCH E NGINES Tutorial Main Page Subject Directories Search Engines Preparing Your Search ... Excite Meta-Search Engines Specialty Databases Practice Other Search Tutorials Researching Companies Tutorial ... Contact Us Meta-search engines (also know as multi-threaded engines) search several major engines at once. Meta-search engines do not crawl the Web or maintain a database of web pages. Instead, they act as a middle agent, passing on the query to the major engines and then returning the results. Because the major search engines often produce very different results, meta-search engines provide a quick way to determine which engines are retrieving the best match for your information need. Because search engines vary in ability to interpret complex searches, meta-search engines work best with simple searches. Click the links below for practice exercises. Dogpile searches 8 search engines and subject directories as well as newsgroups, business news, and newswires. Dogpile supports full Boolean logic and phrase searching. Vivisimo clusters results from 8 search engines and subject directories into convenient topic categories. Use implied Boolean logic (+/-) and phrase searching.

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MetaCrawler, HuskySearch, and Grouper Note: MetaCrawler, HuskySearch, and Grouper were WWW search services operated by the University of Washington. MetaCrawler operated at the UW from 1995 - 1997; HuskySearch and Grouper operated at the UW from 1997 - 2000. MetaCrawler was licensed to Go2Net, now InfoSpace, in 1997. HuskySearch and Grouper were retired from service in 2000. MetaCrawler: 1995 - 1997 MetaCrawler provideded a single, central interface for World Wide Web document searching. Upon receiving a query, MetaCrawler posted the query to multiple search engines in parallel, and performed sophisticated pruning on the responses returned. Experiments indicated that MetaCrawler was able to Prune as much as 75% of the returned responses as irrelevant, outdated, or unavailable. MetaCrawler received upwards of 60,000 queries daily, making it one of the most popular meta-searching services in the world while operated by the University of Washington. recommended MetaCrawler as the search service of choice!

6. Web Searching, Sleuthing And Sifting: Lesson 1: What Is The Web And Why Can’t I 6. Using metaSearch Engines (searching several indexes at once). If meta-searchers are so great, querying my favorite search engines in parallel, then why http://www.thelearningsite.net/cyberlibrarian/searching/ismain.html

Back to the Cyberlibrarian's Rest Stop More about What's New ... Keeping Current with Web-Based Resources Web Searching, Sleuthing and Sifting This series of tutorials addresses a range of search topics. Users who have no prior knowledge of how to locate information on the Web as well as searchers with advanced skills have found the lessons to be helpful. Your suggestions and feedback are very helpful and greatly appreciated! Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 2a Lesson 3 ... Lesson 6 Syllabus: Course Overview Course Title: Web Searching, Sleuthing and Sifting Semester: Begins and ends at your own pace! Duration: 6 weeks Instructor: Angela Elkordy Currently: (Aug. 1999 >) Director of Learning Technologies, MIA Email address: tech_teacher@ mailcity.com Course Description: Web Searching, Sleuthing and Sifting " is a comprehensive introduction to web searching methods and techniques. Assuming no prior knowledge, the course will explain ways to find what you are *actually* looking for, instead of a lot of other "interesting" links. The class includes an overview of the World Wide Web (Web), some of the kinds of information for which you can actually search (such as graphics, audio clips, software and interactive tutorials), an overview of different types of searchable Web resources (such as indexes and directories), how to use search engines effectively (such as Altavista, Hotbot, Excite) as well as an overview of multi-search engines (such as Metacrawler, Dogpile). Course Objectives: To explore a variety of Web tools and search techniques in order to find useful information in a variety of formats. In other words

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What is the CUI ? Sorry, This page is no more updated. W3 Search Engines Some interesting information sources are available only through specialized software If you are willing to install software on your computer to access them, check our page tools for information access. Links that appeared to be broken are in a separate page . Please let me know if one of those is still available! NB: If you find this page especially useful, why not install a local copy on your machine? It will work from anywhere. [The original source of this page is at CUI You may also be interested in trying out Martijn Koster's CUSI (Configurable Unified Search Interface), or visiting Search Engine Watch site which provides detailed information on how search engines work, along with tips on getting better results.

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Home Guide Tools List News ... About Us Guide to Search Tools Report on Meta Search Engines A metasearch engine sends queries to multiple search engines and other data sources, then collates the results in some way and formats them for display. The data sources can be internal indexes, associated text search engines, database search engines, message archives, Intranet or webwide search engines, or even file servers. Meta search engines simply read each search results page and extract the text from the HTML (this is "screen scraping"). For systems which use a protocol to interact with multiple search engines, see the forthcoming SearchTools Report on Distributed Search. Searching the Deep Web: Directed Query Engine Applications at the Department of Energy D-Lib Magazine, January 2001 by Walter L. Warnick, Abe Lederman et al. Distributed searching of resources in the Energy Dept. performs multiple database and text searches in parallel. This allows end-users to search without worrying about the sources and creators of information to avoid extra work of changing processes, although it will use the Z39.50 protocol if available. The Distributed Explorer system sends the queries and formats the results for each search engine. Department of Energy Directives, Regulations, Policies and Standards Portal

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This material has been developed to accompany: "Searching and Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web, Third Edition" ISBN 1-887902-71-6 ISBN 1-887902-58-9 Annotated List of Selected Search Tools Search Engines All the Web Home page: http://alltheweb.com Help http://alltheweb.com/help Description: Types of searches: Keyword or phrase. Implied Boolean expressions, use parentheses for OR search, field searching supported, no stop words. May restrict searches by language with over 30 different languages available. Advanced search mode provides a form to use to build search expressions. Sources to search: Web, News, pictures, videos, and FTP and MP3 files. Output Features Title, hyperlink, URL, size, and text from the Web page. Ranked by relevancy, ten results per page. Links to related topics and a link to the results in pictures or videos are usually present. Altavista Home page: http://www.altavista.com Help: http://help.altavista.com Description: Types of searches: Keyword or phrase. Implied Boolean expressions in simple search, and full Boolean expressions in advanced search. Proximity, truncation, wildcards, case sensitivity, and field searching supported.

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This material has been prepared to accompany the book "Internet and Web Essentials" (ISBN 1887902460) by Ernest Ackermann and Karen Hartman , and published by Franklin, Beedle and Associates Chapter Capsules FYIs Essentials Home Page ... FYIs Summary Summary Terms Exercises FYIs Selected Terms Used in This Chapter agent all-in-one search tool blocking device Boolean searching ... FYIs Exercises and Projects Summary Terms Exercises FYIs FYIs Agents An agent is a program that gathers information or accomplishes tasks without your immediate presence. Agents are usually given very small and well-defined tasks. They are also called intelligent agents, personal agents, or bots. Directories Some of the most well known directories on the World Wide Web. A directory is a topical list of Internet resources, arranged hierarchically. Directories are meant to be browsed, but they can also be searched. Directories differ from search engines in one major way - the human element involved in collecting and updating the information. Filtering and Blocking Agents A filter or blocking agent is software that filters out or blocks certain Web sites from the results of a search.

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Back to Internet Tutorials Searching the Internet: Recommended Sites and Search Techniques Meta Search Engines Meta search engines simultaneously search multiple search engines. They are also referred to as parallel search engines, multithreaded search engines, or mega search engines There are two types of meta search engines: Separate retrieval for relatively comprehensive results : This type searches a number of engines and does not collate the results. This means you must look through a separate list of results from each engine that was searched; you will often see the same result more than once. Some engines require you to visit each site to view your results. With this type of meta search engine, you can retrieve comprehensive, even overwhelming, results. Others fetch the results back to their own sites and give you more limited results. An example of this type of engine is wy metasearch Collated retrieval for selected results : This type is more common and returns a single list of results, often with the duplicate files removed. This type of engine always brings the results back to its own site for viewing. In these cases, the engine retrieves a certain maximum number of files allowed by the individual engines it has searched, cut off after a certain point as the search is processed. The cut-off may be determined by the number of documents retrieved, or by the amount of time the meta engine spends at the other sites. Some of these services give the user a certain degree of control over these factors. All of this has two implications:

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